Saturday 1/8/22
Celebrate National Argyle, Bubble Bath, Earth's Rotation, English Toffee, JoyGerm (reminds people across the country that by being positive and treating people with kindness, they can influence those around them and pass that positive attitude on to others), Men Watcher's, Vision Board, Winter Skin Relief, Show and Tell at Work, and World Typing Day.
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Everyone stop what you’re doing and Google “askew”. You’re welcome.
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Want to learn about things from the dawn of time? Check out this fun Museum of the World!
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Sidney Poitier, whose elegant bearing and principled onscreen characters made him Hollywood's first Black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar, has died. He was 94.
Clint Watson, press secretary for the Prime Minister of the Bahamas, confirmed to CNN that Poitier died Thursday evening.
Poitier overcame an impoverished background in the Bahamas and softened his thick island accent to rise to the top of his profession at a time when prominent roles for Black actors were rare. He won the Oscar for 1963's "Lilies of the Field," in which he played an itinerant laborer who helps a group of White nuns build a chapel.
Many of his best-known films explored racial tensions as Americans were grappling with social changes wrought by the civil rights movement. In 1967 alone, he appeared as a Philadelphia detective fighting bigotry in small-town Mississippi in "In the Heat of the Night" and a doctor who wins over his White fiancée's skeptical parents in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner."
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